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JAMB: Cleric nabbed for duping 2018 UTME candidates

Men of the
Nigerian Security and Civil Defence Corps (NSCDC) on Tuesday arrested a
Methodist Reverend, Mr Chuka Egwuonwu, for allegedly extorting N126,000 from
candidates to aid malpractices.

Mr Patrick
Ukpan, Commandant, NSCDC, FCT Command, while presenting the suspect to newsmen
in Abuja, said the suspect who owns a CBT centre called Diamond ICT Centre was
arrested in Abia State.

Ukpan said
that the arrest was made possible through the help of CCTV mounted in the
centre and controlled from the Abuja headquarters of the JAMB.

“It was
observed that they were extorting money from candidates. The centre have
extorted about N126,000.

“Each
candidate was asked to pay N1,000 for what we do not know but this is a
criminal act.

“Based on
that, he was arrested; JAMB examination that is being conducted now has camera
and live transmission of activities are taking place there straight to the
headquarters of JAMB.

“Whatever
activities are taking place at the centres are being monitored live and based
on those monitoring devices that they we were able to corroborate their
intelligence regarding the extortion of money.

“The suspect
was subsequently arrested and brought down to Abuja.”

He added
that the corps would continue its investigation to get to the route of the
alleged crime, adding that other collaborators would also be arrested if there
are any.

In his
response, Egwuonwu admitted that some coordinators collected money from the
students but found out in his investigations that the act was committed outside
his centre.

The suspect
said those who extorted the money from the candidates were not his staff.

“While
trying to make inquiry, I discovered the crime was committed but before I could
take further action to unravel it, the NSCDC was already there to arrest me.”

Also, Mr
Fabian Benjamin, Head of Media, JAMB, said there was a link between the
suspect’s centre and the tutorial centre that extorted money from candidates.

Benjamin,
who recalled an incidence of protest by some centres in Lagos demanding the
extension of registration till May, said the tutorial centres were there to
extort the students which informed their protest.

“These
centres want to have enough time for the registration of JAMB so as to have
enough time to extort the students,” he said.

He said the
arrest had confirmed the board’s suspicious that the tutorial centres were
after exploitation.

The JAMB
spokesman added that the tutorial centres were damaging the integrity of
education in the country.

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